{"id":15544,"date":"2025-10-28T18:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15544"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:58:30","slug":"monster-storm-endless-wars-gamed-elections-bradcast-10282025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15544","title":{"rendered":"Monster Storm, Endless Wars, Gamed Elections: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 10\/28\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_JamaicaMelissa-Hamas-DrugBoat-SNAP-Indiana_102825.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">We&#8217;ve got a lot of news from all over the world, and no small amount of explainers to go with it on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among our coverage today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deadly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/hurricane\/hurricane-melissa-makes-historic-landfall-in-jamaica-as-category-5-storm\/1829663\">record-shattering<\/a> <b>Hurricane Melissa<\/b> finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/weather\/live-news\/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-landfall-tuesday-climate?post-id=cmhagbfey000c3b6palmmq65n\">makes landfall<\/a> in <b>Jamaica<\/b> as a catastrophic, slow moving, 185 mph Category 5 storm. As discussed, this is likely to be very very bad. The island nation has set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/supportjamaica.gov.jm\/\">support and donations site here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>So much for <b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s recent declaration of &#8220;everlasting peace&#8221; in the Middle East, as <b>Israel<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-west-bank-hamas-gaza-82b5b46cdbddd690dd28b7a8674d40d4\">reignites its brutal attack<\/a> on <b>Gaza<\/b> following its claim that Hamas has violated the recent peace agreement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Peace President&#8221; <b>Donald Trump<\/b> continues his unlawful killing spree in international waters with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0ex94eeljeo\">announcement<\/a> that he ordered the U.S. military murder of <i>another<\/i> 14 alleged &#8220;narco-terrorists&#8221; on four small boats off of <b>Mexico<\/b>&#8216;s Pacific coast. That, as the Administration redeploys its largest aircraft carrier to the Caribbean, not to help storm victims in Jamaica, but almost certainly to wage &#8212; or, at least, threaten &#8212; war on <b>Venezuela<\/b> (and, perhaps, <b>Colombia<\/b>). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Weird and related?: <b>U.S. Defense Dept.<\/b> officials are being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/us-military-officials-required-sign-ndas-tied-latin-america-mission-sources-say-2025-10-28\/\">required to sign NDAs<\/a>. WTF?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Twenty-three Democratic state Attorneys General <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/4oK9DBH\">announced<\/a> they are suing the <b>U.S. Dept. of Agriculture<\/b> to continue food assistance to some 42 million low-income Americans via the <b>Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program<\/b> (or SNAP, previously known as food stamps). The suit follows the agency&#8217;s flip-flop on using already-appropriated emergency contingency funds to feed hungry American families amid the ongoing federal government shutdown. If funding ends on November 1, as planned by the USDA, it would be the first time in the 60-year history of the program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Following Friday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-monitor-polling-sites-california-new-jersey\">announcement<\/a> by Trump&#8217;s corrupted <b>Dept. of Justice<\/b> that it plans to send federal monitors to polling places in five counties in <b>California<\/b> and one in <b>New Jersey<\/b> during next Tuesday&#8217;s November 4th elections, for unexplained reasons, the Golden State has announced it plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/27\/california-will-dispatch-observers-to-watch-dojs-election-monitors-00624039?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7H9XyHOSEJEY0chpv1Ws1-IfDT-I2uaKB-tiWfUdDJg_fIQwdtMGSJlzKJ3Q_aem_icqeRbjJ40UAdaGYi6gRtg\">dispatch state monitors<\/a> to oversee the federal ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <b>Gerrymandering Wars<\/b> continue and expand. Following Trump&#8217;s arm-twisting of state GOP lawmakers in <b>Texas<\/b>, <b>Missouri<\/b> and <b>North Carolina<\/b> to rewrite U.S. House district maps to steal seats from Democrats next year &#8212; and Democrats&#8217; attempted responses in <b>California<\/b> and <b>Virginia<\/b> &#8212; <b>Indiana<\/b>&#8216;s Republican Governor has <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/indiana-gov-announces-special-session-to-act-on-trumps-gerrymandering-squeeze#\">called a special session of the legislature<\/a> to try and steal another GOP House seat from Democratic voters. But Dems aren&#8217;t done responding yet, as House Speaker <b>Hakeem Jeffries<\/b> is <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/article\/campaigns\/jeffries-ill-push\/\">said to be in talks<\/a> with <b>Illinois<\/b> lawmakers about redrawing that state&#8217;s map to further favor Dems next year. We do all of the math for ya today, breaking down which party&#8217;s voters would come out ahead if all of these plans are successful. The answer may surprise you. But the corrupted, rightwing, activist <b>U.S. Supreme Court<\/b> could still <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15533\">blow up everything<\/a> (in favor of Republicans) before all is said and done in the critical 2026 midterms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen is back with <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15543\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> with more on the monstrous <b>Hurricane Melissa<\/b>; the <b>Trump Administration<\/b>&#8216;s withholding of disaster funding to states that didn&#8217;t vote for him; and the deadly, expensive <b>climate change<\/b> threats that continue to worsen, whether the Administration removes climate science data from its websites or not&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-MelissaJamaica-IsraelGaza-BoatAttacksVenezuelaWar-DemsSueSNAP-GerrymanderWarMath_102825.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-the-bradcast-w-brad-friedm-30973643\/\">iHeart<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got a lot of news from all over the world, and no small amount of explainers to go with it on today&#8217;s BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Among our coverage today&#8230; Deadly, record-shattering Hurricane Melissa finally makes landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic, slow moving, 185 mph Category 5 storm. 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